Coral that doens't need light requirements?
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kdfrosty
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I've never kept either coral, but I have heard of much more success with the Sun Polyps than the Red Chili Coral.
Somewhere here on the forums I have read that people will cover their sun Polyps with a tupperware (to reduce flow), and will feed their Sun coral polyps various things including cyclopeeze and or brine.
Somewhere here on the forums I have read that people will cover their sun Polyps with a tupperware (to reduce flow), and will feed their Sun coral polyps various things including cyclopeeze and or brine.
tennisace
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Originally Posted by KDFrosty
I've never kept either coral, but I have heard of much more success with the Sun Polyps than the Red Chili Coral.
Somewhere here on the forums I have read that people will cover their sun Polyps with a tupperware (to reduce flow), and will feed their Sun coral polyps various things including cyclopeeze and or brine.
Why would you want to reduce flow?
I've never kept either coral, but I have heard of much more success with the Sun Polyps than the Red Chili Coral.
Somewhere here on the forums I have read that people will cover their sun Polyps with a tupperware (to reduce flow), and will feed their Sun coral polyps various things including cyclopeeze and or brine.
Why would you want to reduce flow?
matty0h_52
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because you have to hand feed them. and that would be imposible with all the flow. The flow would just shoot the food right buy them.
matty0h_52
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unless u have a feeding stick
kaia
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You reduce the flow so the food can settle on the coral so it can feed, otherwise high current would just take the food along with it and the coral doesn't have a chance of getting any food. In my experience and I'm sure some would disagree, having to special feed anything besides your fish on a daily basis gets old real fast. I had a chili coral and hate to say I was not sad when it didn't make it. I would never buy a coral like that again, I loved feeding it for the first couple of weeks but after that I was so over it. Just my experience though.
kdfrosty
Active Member
Originally Posted by Kaia
You reduce the flow so the food can settle on the coral so it can feed, otherwise high current would just take the food along with it and the coral doesn't have a chance of getting any food. In my experience and I'm sure some would disagree, having to special feed anything besides your fish on a daily basis gets old real fast. .
My sentiments EXACTLY.
You reduce the flow so the food can settle on the coral so it can feed, otherwise high current would just take the food along with it and the coral doesn't have a chance of getting any food. In my experience and I'm sure some would disagree, having to special feed anything besides your fish on a daily basis gets old real fast. .
My sentiments EXACTLY.
smarls
Member
You put a container around the coral so that during feeding you can concentrate the food around the polyps for them to feed. othewise, the food gets all blown in with tank water, and is a lower concentration, and this harder for the corals to feed.
The problem with a tank of non-photosyntheitc corals would be water quality. You need enough food in the tank for these corals to survive and grow, but at the same time, you need to keep your water parameters up...which goes against adding tons of food to a tank.
I would do a fair amoount of research before buying these animals, as they all have specific feeding requirements. Sun corals as mentioned, are not hard, but they do take time to feed on a regular basis.
Other corals, like some gorgonians are far harder to care for, and require the corret partical size food, at the correct flow rate, etc. These are not easy corals to keep.
HTH
Stewart
The problem with a tank of non-photosyntheitc corals would be water quality. You need enough food in the tank for these corals to survive and grow, but at the same time, you need to keep your water parameters up...which goes against adding tons of food to a tank.
I would do a fair amoount of research before buying these animals, as they all have specific feeding requirements. Sun corals as mentioned, are not hard, but they do take time to feed on a regular basis.
Other corals, like some gorgonians are far harder to care for, and require the corret partical size food, at the correct flow rate, etc. These are not easy corals to keep.
HTH
Stewart